Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency
9:30 am
Michael Colreavy (Sligo-North Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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While the committee would not have discussed the particular point, I imagine it would believe it was significant that information given to it had changed and that it should be have been made aware of it. If it was important enough for it to ask in the first place, any change in the response should also have been notified to it.
We do not have much information on the public health impact. I would have thought the public health impact would have been examined in longitudinal studies. While the documents reference the public health impact assessment, there is no detail on the scope or scale of the research or who will conduct it. Will the chief medical officer be involved? Will a Government agency sign off on the health impact assessment?